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Polish radio journalist arrested in Belarus over reporting

Minsk - Belarusian authorities have arrested a Polish radio reporter for broadcasts criticising the government and the economy, the Belapan news agency reported Friday. Ivan Roman, a Belarusian national working for the Poland-based broadcaster Radio Racja, violated media law with reports of economic and social problems in the former Soviet republic, Belarus KGB security officials in the central province Hrodno claimed.

KGB agents arrested Roman at home and questioned him at a police station, before releasing him late on Friday.

Radio Racja transmits from the Polish city Bialystok, near the Belarusian border.